elements of culture

Choose a word that best captures the picture to the right. Think adjective/adverb or the specific meaning of a word.

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​One Word Descriptions!

Open Ended

One Word Description for the picture.

​Based on the next slide, give a detailed explanation of what your perspective is.....Remember your perspective is based on
family, social groups, media. school. and all of the things you process in your brain.

What is Perspective?

Open Ended

What impact does/will social media have on you as a person?

Learning Targets

1. I can identify key elements of the culture of Appalachia.

2. I can ask good questions that are open.

Open Ended

Briefy explain what a "perspective" is and what exactly goes into making yours?

Questioning

Early this 9 weeks we will focus a lot on the ability to ask good questions. Without
good questions, there is no thought.

Questioning Practice

Write a question as we progress through each picture.

Devil’s Bathtub

Blue People of Appalachia

Mothman

It’s not what you say, but how you say it

Look at the picture to the right and write down 3
words that could be used to describe it.
Remember the word you use is how you are
trying to get the reader to visualize it.

Open Ended

Look at the picture and write down 3 words that could be used to describe it.

Practice: Look at each of the following pictures and
write a question. After you write it, determine if it an
open or closed question

Open Ended

Question#1

Open Ended

Question #2

Read the quote below and ask an open question

Fill in the Blanks

Culture is the total of knowledge, attitudes, and 

 shared by and passed on by the members of a specific group.

Multiple Choice

Includes all of a group’s learned behaviors, actions, beliefs, and objects

• Culture

• Folk/local Culture

• Pop/Global Culture

• invisible culture

Multiple Choice

The visible reflection of its culture

• Cultural realms

• Cultural hearths

• Cultural regions

• cultural landscape

Multiple Choice

Art, dance, music would all be examples of what element of culture?

• What do we create?

• What is our heritage?

• How are we organized?

• What do we value?

Multiple Choice

Beliefs, customs, and traditions would all be examples of what element of culture?

• What do we create?

• What is our heritage?

• How are we organized?

• What do we value?

Multiple Choice

Social structure, economic system, government would be examples of what element of culture?

• What do we create?

• What is our heritage?

• How are we organized?

• What do we value?

Multiple Choice

Process which culture is spread.

• Cultural Convergence 

• Cultural Diffusion 

• Cultural Divergence 

• Cultural Landscape 

Open Ended

IN 7-8 sentences explain how you think the culture of Appalachia has had an impact on your perspective and how you now see the world.